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In a place I can call mine...

Today, yesterday, this week...

I’ve learned a lot, and now I need to express. 

Reflect. 

I collected my first NO. 

My mind is a shampoo. 

I need to unclutter. 

My process of thought and concentration have been affected by this. 

My health, my vision, my charisma... I can’t lose my spark.

Remember why you did it in the first place... Ultimately, for your happiness... because you think you are great at it, because it is an instrument for your future plans... which involve greatness for society, happiness to your soul... Your offering to God.

Ok, but now, really, reflect.

I do not think I did a great job in finance and I am pretty sure I barely passed my accounting test today. Very unlike me, but let’s see where I went wrong.

I did NOT ask for the right type of help and in a timely manner. LEARN how to distribute work. Organize and make things happen during your set up times. Work to your deadlines, be disciplined to your own deadlines.

Include breaks during your work hours. Adapt obviously. Listen to more music. 

Also, stay longer with the problem. Try to finish more before starting other things. 

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Stop on the go

I’ll never forget the words of one of my professors at UofT: “Sometimes you have to take 2 steps back in order to take a step forward” 

Although there is no stepping back for me right now, there is a need to stop and think. I am a big fan of celebrating art, and so, writing (with wine tonight) is how I think for a while...

Here is a quick poem:

Art to escape, to give the child a chance, 

To express and remember, 

That beauty is our motivation.

A purpose for happiness, 

Thrilling and challenging, 

To love and have passion, 

That is no “millennial fashion”.

Courage and consciousness in concert, 

Undoubtedly with God’s providence, 

The journey is controlled, 

Enjoyed and absorbed. 

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Autobiografia

Perla Lyonela - joya brava. Pasión en prisión. Alma milenaria, desterrada de la antigüedad, en busca de mas sabiduría.

Soy guayaquileña madera de guerrera, descendiente de Nicaragüenses (eh pueh!), que vivió la Pura Vida en Costa Rica, y que ahora conspira su próximo plan en Toronto (eh!). La vida gitana en mi niñez me fortaleció, sin embargo hoy por hoy - soy el corazón partido por las tierras en las que vivo y he vivido (drama queen, I know, I know), y no me canso aun de la exploración.

Soy una alquimista en entrenamiento aun, pero al menos puedo decir con certitud que soy bailarina desde hace 28 vidas. Por el momento bailo la danza del vientre, tap, salsa y bachata. Aspiro profundizar mis habilidades específicamente en la danza del vientre.

Pienso que somos lo que amamos, por lo que les cuento que amo el misterio (los aliens son de verdad!), la naturaleza (playa, bosque, río, jungla, volcán, ya dije playa?) , la aventura (el doctor me recomendó dosis mensual), la música (necesitaría infinitos blogs para describir mis gustos musicales…), viajar (8 países hasta la fecha, pero, continuará…), el arte (la danza, la literatura, las películas, la actuación, la moda), la ciencia humana (soy farmacóloga), la comida (en especial la italiana! me gusta aprender a cocinarla también), y la salud (mental como física - nuestro cuerpo es un templo!)

Soy fiel creyente de Jesucristo y vivo de acuerdo a su palabra. También me inspiro de la filosofía de Ayn Rand, por lo que trato siempre de buscar mi felicidad en la Tierra y soy muy orgullosa de mis valores y de mi integridad.

En fin, soy la lucha perseverante por actuar como la heroína y líder de los libros y/o películas que tanto adoro. La lucha por ser y hacer como mi ideal mas grande.

Por lo tanto, soy lo amo y lo que quiero ser. Lo que yo decido escribir en mis días - y en la página de hoy, no solamente soy escritora de poemas… Sino que he decido ir mas allá…

Escribí que escribiré acerca de los libros que he leído - y te escribí a ti leyendo y discutiendo tu opinión con la mía.

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Unicornios

Carmelo Julio Saavedra Montero Buena Vista e/Contreras y Manzano. Matanzas. Cuba. 

Telf. 45287642

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Carambola de providencia.

Mi cerebro, volcán, erupciona al aire libre, su lava, ideas ardientes, color topaz. El anhelo... ¡Oh, que se encuentren con buena marea!  Y que cuya candente mezcla, con tiempo y paciencia,  en una gran isla fértil se convierta, legacía que sirva como marca eterna,  del brillante motor, fuente de explosión.

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Memory

I opened “Mail” - the actual application of Mail on Apple computers- which I always do by accident and always close without thinking. However, today I saw that there is a message I had sent to myself in second semester of grade 12 when I was rushing to apply to Trinity College at UofT. In the message was my little “short description” of a painting which was the task in the application. I read it and am glad that I had that way of thinking back then, and that I have lived these past 4 years like I wrote in my description. 

 As Bo Bennett said: "A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement". Since the day that we were struck by someone or an event that has given us inspiration, we have had a dream in life, waiting to be pursued. There is always an ideal of our happiness in our minds, and we try our best to make it as similar as it can possibly be in real life. In this image, the goal of making a painting that resembles the first one was clearly set, and achieved. The "highway" that we choose will be a major factor for the feeling of self-realization, and it is fundamental that the destination was of our pleasantness.

As grade twelve Canadian students, there are many factors that stress our life, and make us live with fear. We have the weight of our marks, having to decide what career we want, some of us have jobs and, on top of that, we have to maintain a balance with our friends and our social life. The fear we have is obvious; the fear to fail at the determined career we choose, or to disappoint our families. This image is a representation, and a reminder to follow the path we really want to live for, and not to decide based on other's impositions, or the money that the career promises to provide. The portrait could have been of any painting but, the person who decided to make a portrait, chose that specific painting. When we adopt a determined career, we will have chosen it because it calls on us certain fascination. Cause and effect. The cause is not always known, but it is based on our admirations, aspirations, and what makes us happy presently as well. In the image, a door is open behind the portrait, akin our lives after we have achieved an objective. It does not stop there, life will keep on giving challenges for us to become more intelligent and wise human beings, thus the door will always be open for more learning.

A story of a generation who is overwhelmed by a world that keeps asking more and more, always rising its standards for '"success", as well as having to decide at an early age the path we want our lives to take, is in fact, becoming real and present. The choice we make, at the end, should be based on our own beliefs and dreams, because if it does not make us happy, it will lead to a life of misery. The effect we have on the world, will depend directly on our cause, and how determined we were to achieve our supreme goal. However, the path for learning does not stop once the supreme ideal was reached, there is another door waiting for us, ready to defy us for good. This is the story of students who live for today, with a vision of tomorrow, open minded and striving for their own personal happiness.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

*makes a fierce zigzag entrance* *stops and stares at you with a serious face* GO GO GO…

Go shawty…

IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!

 WE’RE GONNA PARTY 

LIKE IT’S YOUR BDAY IT we gon’ sip bacardi like it’s your birthday!

Choueeeeette!

Happy happy happy 22nd birthday!! I wish you the best, my bestie

22 years ago, you came into the world and had this “I’m number 8 ” fun attitude:

Although you act crazy at times, you show that you are BRAVE bc you  stay true to yourself

And I hope you are happy to be the age of the duck

…If you still don’t feel 22, yell it a couple of times and I am sure you will be like this:  

But then, we’ll have our favorite drink and you will be singing: “yeah eah eah I am 22!!”

And then you know singing the actual 22 song with all your lungs:

Anyway, I can’t wait for your letters and the daily report of you know what *wink wink*

LOVE YOU! And although I am not the cheesy type… 

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Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah (1949)

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Edmund Dulac

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Presque presque là

C’est ce temps de l’année dans lequel je voudrais, non, je dois et je sens la besoin de m’exprimer. Ce semestre a amméné beaucoup de choses complètement nouvelles pour moi. J’ai étudié et j’ai travaillé en même temps. Je me suis déménagée à Toronto, j’ai appliqué au Masters, alors beaucoup de choses ont arrivé.

Je vais faire de la recherche le semestre prochain, et je pense que j’ai un bon plan pour l’avenir à court terme. Je remercie à Dieu. 

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November Rain

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Audrey Hepburn, Costume test for Sabrina, Paramount Pictures, 1951  

This photograph will be featured  in The National Portrait Galley display of Audrey in the summer this year. 

please do not repost 

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B E A U T Y - dir. Rino Stefano Tagliafierro

https://vimeo.com/83910533